Carpet in bathrooms?!?!?

[FruitCider]

I went up stay with a family member yesterday. This was the first time I'd stayed there so was shocked to find wooden floors in the lounge and carpets in the bathroom/toilets, especially because the carpet was powder pink! I've only seen this once before in another house with green carpets. Is it a class thing? My relatives and the aforementioned household are quite wealthy. They both also have a bidet. I'm feeling confused! And after my recent trip I'm pretty sure I'm a peasant.

I would love a thread on 'bidets'. I have all sorts of heated discussions with my European friends who consider us Brits unhygienic....

If one doesn't have a bidet, where does one defrost one's turkey?

This just won the internet for today !

People always used to carpet bathrooms, and used pedestal mats for hygiene. I fitted one in my first house, 25yrs ago.
In a house with less heating it's really cosy and warm, and maybe people were more careful with their aim when they had carpet.

I've also seen rotten floor boards when a bathroom carpet was taken up.

I had my first orgasm on a bidet - it was quite a surprise I tell thee!! 😁

I had my first orgasm on a bidet - it was quite a surprise I tell thee!!

This is a too much information, yet not enough information moment! Pondering whether appropriately directed water was responsible. Or another person. Yet, the mental picture is wrong on too many levels.

may have had wine

I would never choose carpet in a bathroom but lived fairly happily with it for a while when I lived on my own. Bidets are fab, though - I had one in my old flat and insisted on one when we redid the en suite in our current house. Great for a quick freshen up, especially during one’s Time of Womanly Shame

Japanese toilets all the way! We are pretty disgusting in the UK when it comes to toilet hygiene

One day I shall afford a Japanese toilet!

jp.toto.com/campaign/wtjapan/en/wtjapan/special/

We’ve just had the exact conversation having just viewed a house that had carpets in the bathrooms but Lino in the kitchen diner. I just think it’s weird and unhygienic

Bathroom carpet horrible. Bidets good.

@RockyHockey you can get a tap installed on your cistern, allowing you to hose clean.

I would have carpet if I were the only one using the bathroom. Bliss.

Our old (rented) house had the same pale beige carpets in every room including the bathroom and en suite.

The house was built about 20 years ago and think it was a bit of a thing at that time in modern ‘executive’ homes.

With 3 boys in the house it soon become bloody manky and I was pleased when we moved just down the road into the same style house but with nice bathroom flooring 😄

Oh, my God.

The Toto website is hilarious.

'WASHLET. enriches and beautifies life, making every day new'

(now 'Watch Zhou Xun's secret to enriching her life').

Jesus, Mary and Joseph - do we get to see her enriching and beautifying her fanny after a good shit? I'm scared to watch the video now.

(all I wanted was a clean arse and no danger of finding out the toilet roll is now a scraggy piece of cardboard with a couple of scraps left on it).

I have carpet in my bathroom, wallpaper and a bidet. Obviously I am doomed.

All of our bathrooms have carpets. Had the bathrooms redone this year- all modern etc.

Lovely and warm under the feet and with bath mats etc we've never had any mould or anything with carpets. They're cream and spotless.

Had them with young children and still have them now. Everyone says how soft and lovely they are when they come over. Had no idea people were so against them

My h would love a bidet; he thinks it will be the cure to blocked sewers. After all he said Brits must be secret bottom washers with all the wipes.

On a different note carpets are grim.

I concur with everyone else the bathroom sounds like something from the 70s.

An electric toilet seat that fires warm, air-rich electrolyzed water at yer undercarriage - what a time to be alive!

The Toto is actually very popular in the western world... lots of well off people are having them installed. The bidet is dated, the Toto is where it’s at.

I alway thought bidets were only a problem in movies (think Crocodile Dundee and the like).
Bidets are useful for cleaning yourself without having to take a full shower (when on your period for example). Our Turkish friends think smearing about with paper after using the loo is unhyginic in the extreme (and uncivilised).
As for carpet we always had a mat around the loo washable at 90 degrees, because of very cold tiles in an unheated bathroom.

My parents have carpeted bathrooms. I always considered it normal, until I went to university and some friends mentioned that carpet in bathrooms was disgusting. My parent's house is always immaculate though, so it's not gross.. I am a slattern, so definitely wouldn't want it in my own house!

Our landlord has carpet in our bathroom and I hate it. He won't have it taken out so I am comstantly cleaning it. Kids splash water out if the bath making it all soggy... it's disgusting. This house was built in the 70s but the carpet looked about 8 years old when we moved in solved 10 years old now

We had carpeted bathroom in my childhood home, I remember it being fitted. It was grey and warm and plastic backed - I remember going to the carpet shop with my mum, there was a whole range.

It was ripped out when my brother started potty training . I wouldn’t have it. Underfloor heating is where it’s at if you want warm floors.

we have just got rid of the carpet in the main bathroom (hurray!) but we will be keeping the one in the ensuite.

The ensuite has no problems with damp or mould, and it is warm adn quiet. Never gets wet as there is large walk-in shower, with good bathmat.

There was carpet in the bathroom of our old house when we moved in in 2006. It was an eighties build. It was really rank and I can't understand why they would have kept it. I replaced it myself with vinyl - didn't do a great job but at least it felt clean - then we had a new bathroom fitted a few years later.